Jeff Lindsay quotes

Jeff Lindsay is an American playwright and novelist, best known for creating the Dexter series. His work blends dark humor with crime and suspense, captivating a global audience. He has contributed significantly to contemporary popular fiction and screen adaptations. Here are 63 of his quotes:

I know family comes first, but shouldn't that mean after breakfast? (Jeff Lindsay)

I did not like this feeling of having feelings.

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It happens; incompetence is rewarded more often than not.

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In its own way the kiss had been an act of murder.

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It's terrible to have to depend on someone else.

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I let it ring. I wanted to breathe for a few minutes, and I could think of nothing that couldn't wait. Besides, I had paid almost $50 for an answering machine. Let it earn its keep.

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I don't know if you have noticed this, but it is quite possible for two human beings to have a conversation in which one or both parties involved has absolutely no idea what they're talking about.

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As I've said, freedom is really an illusion. Anytime we think we have a real choice, it just means we haven't seen the shotgun aimed at our navel.

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Of course, having information to use is one thing. Knowing what it means and how to use it is a different story.

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But what could I do? Be stupid for a while? I wasn't sure I knew how, even after so many years of careful observation.

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There is a simple, logical explanation,' I said to myself. And because you never know who else is listening, I added, 'And there is nothing under the bed.'" --Dexter. (Jeff Lindsay)

We can't always do what we think we have to do. So when there's nothing else you can do, you wait... No matter what... pressure... you might feel.

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Nothing in life is fair. Fair is a dirty word and I'll thank you not to use that language around me.

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Weren't we all crazy in our sleep? What was sleep, after all, but the process by which we dumped our insanity into a dark subconscious pit and came out on the other side ready to eat cereal instead of our neighbor's children?

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You're driving me NORMAL!

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I'm a very neat monster." ~Dexter Morgan.

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Life's only obligation, afterall, was to be interesting.

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Really now: If you can't get me my newspaper on time, how can you expect me to refrain from killing people?

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Because I am an inhuman monster, I tend to be logical,...

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No big deal. We all have blood in us, the trick is keeping it inside.

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It was almost enough to make me feel emotion. (Jeff Lindsay)

I often find myself in situations where it seems to me like everyone else has read the instruction book.

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But as I have noticed on more than one occaision, life itself is unfair, and there is no complaint department, so we might as well accept things the way they happen, clean up the mess, and move on.

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Money to me had always been merely something the sheep used to show each other how wonderful they were.

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The key to a happy life is to have accomplishments to be proud of and purpose to look forward to, and at the moment I had both. How wonderful it was to be me.

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Jeff Lindsay

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Photo: Larry D. Moore, CC BY 4.0

Occupation: American Playwright
Born: July 14, 1952
Quotes count: 63

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